| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: pieds des colombes qui demeurent dans les temples et sont nourries
par les pretres. Elle est plus rouge que les pieds de celui qui
revient d'une foret ou il a tue un lion et vu des tigres dores. Ta
bouche est comme une branche de corail que des pecheurs ont trouvee
dans le crepuscule de la mer et qu'ils reservent pour les rois . . .
! Elle est comme le vermillon que les Moabites trouvent dans les
mines de Moab et que les rois leur prennent. Elle est comme l'arc
du roi des Perses qui est peint avec du vermillon et qui a des
cornes de corail. Il n'y a rien au monde d'aussi rouge que ta
bouche . . . laisse-moi baiser ta bouche.
IOKANAAN. Jamais! fille de Babylone! Fille de Sodome! jamais.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: case had just been heard - a trial for infanticide against an ape-
like native woman; and the audience were smoking cigarettes as they
awaited the verdict. An anxious, amiable French lady, not far from
tears, was eager for acquittal, and declared she would engage the
prisoner to be her children's nurse. The bystanders exclaimed at
the proposal; the woman was a savage, said they, and spoke no
language. 'MAIS, VOUS SAVEZ,' objected the fair sentimentalist;
'ILS APPRENNENT SI VITE L'ANGLAIS!'
But to be able to speak to people is not all. And in the first
stage of my relations with natives I was helped by two things. To
begin with, I was the show-man of the CASCO. She, her fine lines,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: Left ruin where they once had reigned;
But on the wreck, as on old shells,
The color of the rose remained.
His fictive merchandise I bought
For him to keep and show again,
Then led him slowly from the crush
Of his cold-shouldered fellow men.
"And so, Llewellyn," I began --
"Not so," he said; "not so, at all:
I've tried the world, and found it good,
For more than twenty years this fall.
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